Michael McFadden
Sr. Software Architect, Sciencelogic.com

Michael “Flip” McFadden earned his degree in Computer Science from Appalachian State University in 2000 and was hired on by the university to support the NASA Nearby Stars Survey as a Research Assistant and Data Reduction Specialist. He went on to earn his Linux Professionals Institute Level 1 certification in April 2004, and earned his MySQL 5.0 Certified Developer in May of 2008. Michael currently works for ScienceLogic as a Sr. Software Architect and can occasionally be found trolling on the #mysql IRC channel as ‘flipmcf’.